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by mschuster91 4833 days ago
I'm sick of these "oooh no dick jokes" and "political correctness" fascism applied everywhere.

Come on, there's a difference between saying a woman directly to the face that you'd like to bang her, and to make jokes about sex in a group of people.

This whole mess of "oh we have to be politically correct in any f*ing way to avoid lawsuits" has spread from the US to Europe. 1984 anyone? I'm free to think what I want and to make jokes to my friends about topics I want. Without any PC-fascists interfering and waffling about stuff they have no business at.

This does not mean that I dislike women in tech or think of them as free-for-all or whatever stupid cliché. I don't give a shit about boobs or dicks, I care about how _good_ someone is at his job only. As we all should. We have to take care of paying everyone equal, not firing people because they're LGBT (Don't ask, don't tell dropping was a first step, yay) and to eliminate _any_ gender or sexual related discrimination.
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Cushman 4833 days ago
> "oh we have to be politically correct in any fing way to avoid lawsuits"

Let's parse this out a little more. "We must act to avoid lawsuits." Or put another way, "We must not do things for which we might be sued." Or put another way, "We must, individually, avoid the risk of making people uncomfortable here at their place of work where they are contractually obligated to be so that they will not sue us and win."

Some of you may know this concept as fascism.

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johnny22 4833 days ago
i don't think fascism means what you think it means.
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mschuster91 4833 days ago
In Germany the term "Feminazis" or similar is used as a (offensive) title for extreme feminists (which we unfortunately have a lot of!).

Nothing against feminism, but it has more and more turned into a war on men.

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johnny22 4833 days ago
quite familiar with the term. That doesn't make these folks who are upset with the issue the same as those folks who you are referencing. IMO it is quite unfair to link them.

EDIT: there are extremes in every viewpoint, and there are probably some people who actually do dislike men. But does that really make it ok to bring it up in this context due to all evidence to the contrary in the tech fields?

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